Alok Jha's Atkins diet experiment
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Do you want fat with that?
For three months, Alok Jha has been testing the health claims of the controversial Atkins diet. Find out here what happened when he cut the carbs.
Absence of denial is a good sign
The best thought through diet won't work if people can't stick to it. All diets ask people to avoid food. They state, for example, that we must eat fewer calories, eat less fat or avoid unhealthy snacks such as crisps and chocolate. But these attempts at avoidance ultimately make people preoccupied with food. It's as if the thought "today I will not eat chocolate" makes chocolate-eating a priority. In addition, dieters sometimes show lowered mood and report hunger.
I doubt he was well nourished
For Alok, this is not a good thing
Why I'm not a low-carb revolutionary just yet
I know, I know - I'm late. It's been nearly a month since my last update but I promise there are some really good reasons.
How to leave the bread behind
The first two weeks are meant to be the hardest. The Atkins induction can be a rollercoaster of cravings, hunger and mood swings according to even the most die hard low-carb fans.
In the beginning...
Alok Jha: Four days into the Atkins diet and the only thing I crave is chocolate - and not because I'm a particularly big fan of the sweet stuff.
The great Atkins experiment
Diet cynic Alok Jha embarks on the low-carb routine to see what it does to his body - and his mind